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2012 New England Primaries

Do you hear that, Mr. Gingrich? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your defeat. Goodbye, Mr. Gingrich.

So it is done, so shall it be written. With Rick Santorum's exit from the race 2 weeks ago, the process was set in motion for Mitt Romney to secure nomination. A process that should not have taken as long as it did to decide a candidate. A process that for all intents and purposes is over. Not just because Romney won fair and square either, but because Newt Gingrich's campaign is utterly broke. They're so far in debt there's no getting out of it now, and he's been forced to consider suspending his campaign. I expect that despite all the rhetoric to the contrary that Gingrich will drop out soon. Perhaps as early as next week.

The victory was a sound drubbing in every conceivable way, here's the breakdown:

It should have become clear with this that the math is now in Romney's favor to have a lock on this even if Gingrich is stupid enough to stay in. Santorum's delegates are beginning to disperse and will only continue to do so between now and June. Now if we could just get Ron Paul to go away too..........................RIP United States of America

Wow, I hadn't realized that Delaware was the only one Newt a hedged lead over Ron... definitely no contests at all in any of them between Newt/Ron and Mitt though. When is the party likely to announce Mitt's victory, do you think? (I suppose this really does eliminate the relevance of the issue of Santorum's delegates.)

I spent an interesting 2 hours last night watching this: Can I Change Your Mind on Climate and the Q&A panel after it. If any of you have a couple of hours to waste and the bandwidth, i would be interested to hear your thoughts about what you got out of the first link.

My views have changed and developed over time, and while i am still firmly in the warming group, how we should go about transitioning to a low carbon economy has changed a lot, to the point where I even think that our Carbon Tax my not be a good thing at all.

Further more, I have always had a lot of respect for Nick Minchum, former conservative government member here in Australia, its just a pitty that there are not more like him currently in the Liberal ranks.

Oh and Samson, after watching the first show, you immediately came to mind, i thought it was funny how stereo typical we are at times in how we have debated this, the individualist and the egalitarian certainly shapes a lot of how we think on issues.

Fury, not one to judge, but really. Nick Minchum? He's not just a climate skeptic but a tobacco skeptic too. What we need are more good liberals like Turnbull who are capable of pulling bastards like these into line and expelling any of this fringe lunacy from the party. I'm cool with the coalition's economic policies, but really, when they start hinging themselves on dangerous positions like that, I really feel uncomfortable considering myself a supporter. The fact that the guy feels the world is cooling rather than warming really undermines my confidence in him to make any rational decision backed by evidence.

Not that I've ever been a fan of the carbon tax, although, I think Abbot has been using the whole 'toxic tax' phrase slightly too frequently. Although, I will enjoy watching those programs later tonight. God bless Fridays.

Given that there are no more viable candidates, that will be the end of election tracking here for now. Not a hell of a lot of point in reporting on Romney's unopposed victory now. You Ron Paul followers need to get over yourselves, he's got zero chance.

Question; why did Newt first have to announce that he was going to drop out in the near future rather than just announcing he was dropping out when he dropped out?

They don't always do that, but more often than not they do. Like Samson said, it's really all a game to most of these politicians, which is exactly what makes it so hard for me to "get behind" any of them most of the time. They really don't seem to care much about the issues or their constituents, just the job itself and the game of advancing their political careers.

Maybe it is all a psychology ploy, if i announce that i will end my at such and such a date, it might encourage those who support me, but don not typically vote to come out of the woodwork and vote, thus keeping my campaign alive. and if no one votes for me, i have the confirmation that no one likes me.

Things have been slipping away for him for quite a while now. To be honest, it looks bad to me; he's losing out to conservative groups and the supreme leader. And, y'know, unlike the supreme leader at least Ahmadinejad's democratically elected (sort of), and well, if he was anti-Israel/Semitic/Western/generally dangerous/whatever, well, I wouldn't like to see a conservative Iranian government in action.

Did you read the rumours that Costello might be making a comeback? Now there is a conservative who could pull off federally what Campbell Newman did here in QLD. So would you vote for him? I think i would, considering how pathetic labour are currently. Certainly has to be better than Abbot.

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